Annecy Baez
Revson Fellow 2007-2008
Director of Counseling Center
Lehman College/CUNY
Annecy Báez is the Director of the Counseling Center at Lehman College of The City University of New York. Prior to joining Lehman College, she was an Assistant Professor at New York University School of Social Work where she taught clinical practice. Recent research focus includes brief counseling in a college setting, depression prevention and the use of writing as a way of healing. Annecy Baez writes poetry and short fiction. Her literary work has appeared in literary journals, and anthologies such as Tertuliando/Hanging Out, a bilingual literary anthology published by Hunter College and Callaloo, an African American Literary Journal from John Hopkins University. Her collection of short stories, My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories, won the 2007 Marmol Prize for Latina First Fiction (Curbstone Press).
Courses, camaraderie, community–the fellowship provided all three in an engaging fashion. I thought as a mid-career professional I would feel out of synch with the students but their perspectives challenged me and the professors, the books I would have never read on my own and the guest speakers refreshed and enlivened my thinking and work practices. The fellowship felt like a sabbatical–only it took place on-campus.
